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Actual conversation over April Cookout:
“So do you think the NSA was using the exploit in Heartbleed over the past two years?”
“Did they deny it yet?”
“Why yes, they just did…”
“Well, that confirms it.. They were.”
With Sandy’s approach, words of warning went out to all campaigns.. Get your big signs down for the storm. Feel free to put them up after the storm blows by. Everyone got an email.
Democrats were in full force, and in New Castle County, not one Democratic sign was left standing… By noon all were stored for safe keeping…
There were no libertarian candidate’s signs. As dedicated citizens, the libertarian team scoured the county and by noon, their signs were all stored for save keeping.
The one Jill Stein sign I’d seen, was gone. Secured by the Green Party….
In fact the only signs up as darkness approached, were those of Alex Pires, which is understandable, it being a one man operation, and those of the Republican line up, which apparently has even fewer supporters.
It looks like Kansas, at intersections now, with only Republicans contesting a one man operation….
If the Green Party and Libertarian party can mobilize faster than the Republican, it is time to stop calling the Republican Party a “major” party.
Even the Wizard of Oz had more going for it than today’s Delaware Republicans, who with their daily bumbles are rapidly creating a new definition of the English word pathetic.
This is post number 2000.
The only real significance is it is 150 posts more than where Tommywonk stopped exactly one year and fifteen days ago…
If some future historian looks back, I can only guess they may kindly make some note of the quality of thought that underlies these efforts, but my guess, is no one will ever notice…
Irregardless, as long as the urge to put thoughts down for others continues, we will go on. As usual, with no goal, no direction, and no ulterior motive. Probably upon reflection, my biggest surprise, right here, right now … is that I still enjoy it so much, and can’t wait to jot my thoughts down, click the button, and send them off to where ever cyberspace and the vast internet ocean, lets them drift….
For each of you who have become regular over the years, … thank you friend…
Jockstrap….
I just couldn’t help but notice he supports almost every Johnson. (Even ones with Swiss spellings… Johansen ….)
Lol…
“I’m starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow, because we’ve been getting spanked by her for about a year now,” he said while grabbing some coffee at a convenience store…..
OF COURSE YOU DID, DUMMY. YOU VOTED FOR REPUBLICANS!
Anyone who reads this blog knows that comments are where the action is.. The best writing is usually below the canal, where smart minds give and take and dissect the others points of view… Having spent an inordinate amount of time on one such comment, I thought today’s epistle would be, something that in the olden days would have been titled: “Comment Rescue… ”
(Since I didn’t garnish another’s permission, I’m not naming him or her, but if they want to come forward on their own, they most certainly are welcome… They probably will, because their comment is not that hard to find.. But I thought the overall give and take was done well enough to showcase to others how all argument should take place on blogs, and use this as a measure upon which all other future commentary can be judged…)
“Bush is the person who fought a war in which Americans died for oil.” Where was Congress? I seem to remember they voted to send troops but that can’t possibly be so, can it?
There are two ways an administration can approach Congress… One is to say look at all the evidence and come to your own conclusion… The other is to say, take our word, we have the intelligence that says this will happen, we need your support as a fellow American… The latter was the path that was taken… Today, trying to pin Congress in on the instigation of the Iraq War, is nothing but a cowardly attempt to shift blame… Those of us who know human nature, chuckle at each such attempt, because we know that is done only by people who KNOW they are guilty… The act of blaming Congress actually drives home our point that Republicans were guilty and got caught! The proof is there. Cheney constructed the threat of Iraq and sold it… We found out too late it was nothing but a contrivance…
“Bush is the person who bankrupted our nation by spending every dollar of the surplus and then ran our nation on deficit spending for 8 years…Let our children pay for it!” So you’re a deficit hawk then. Great. Please direct me to the post where you go bananas when Obama takes a mere 143 days to surpass Bush’s 8 years of spending which included not one but two wars.
There are two kinds of deficits. one is flagrant spending of favors to bolster the Republican party’s power; the other is to borrow to save a nation… Deficit spending saved us during WWII… The deficit spending that was spent recently, is an investment that saved the entire financial global network. The government of the United States of America, absorbed the stupid Republican-caused collapse. We now own shares of the banks. When the economy grows, we can cash those shares in at a profit. Your deficit argument is like castigating a well-meaning American homeowner for going into debt for a house… After all, someone signing a $250,000 note while making $30,000 is scary. But it is a good thing for the rest of us, that a lot of homeowners have balls, isn’t it..
Republicans obviously don’t have balls or brains. … Their wimpy whinings are no more relevant than the naive advisor who says “don’t buy a house, rent… You don’t want to go in debt.” Bottom line, the deficit of saving a nation, worked.. or has so far. The previous administration’s deficit, of making the wealthier even wealthier, didn’t work. Instead it fucked up this nation….
“Bush is the person who pushed the Medicare Reform that first tripled the cost of pharmaceuticals and then reimbursed drug companies three times over what the drugs originally were worth.” Cite please. I agree that the program was ill conceived and even poorly executed but I’ve not seen anything approaching these numbers.
If you bought drugs over the counter and paid $40 dollars for your supply before the Medicare pharmaceutical supplements came to be passed by the Republicans, today those same drugs cost $120 dollars, and the government covers $80 of those dollars and you pay….. $40 dollars… What has changed for you? The pharma companies are now getting $120 dollars for the same drugs they once got $40 for…. you pay the same $40, and your children and grandchildren pay the $80, which assuming interest will accrue, could amount to about $240 dollars depending on how long we allow the debt to continue unchecked…… The sacrilege comes from the fact that the $80 dollars part, was added to the deficit, so the wealthiest 1% could receive a tax cut… We doubled the cost, while cutting the revenue stream in half…
Smart Republican policy… WE are all paying for our nations stupidity now, aren’t we? As for citation… go to you own bills or ask you parents… That is far better citation than I could ever give… Go look.
“Bush is the person who deregulated our finance industry, so it collapsed on his watch.”
Nope. Bush warned three times that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were headed for trouble and he was rebuffed three times. Misregulation was the cause not deregulation. The largely unregulated hedge fund industry (Cerebrus Capital notwithstanding)skated through while the very tightly regulated insurance and banking were devastated.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not the problem although Bush was right to warn us of their unwieldiness… No, they were secondary symptoms caused by the main problem which was in Phil Gramm’s Commodities Act, a clause he inserted which allowed all derivatives to be unregulated. Insurance on these derivatives, was also unregulated… When the time came for AIG to cough up? There was no money! It had all been spent on bonuses… and when the Feds coughed money to save AIG, they tried again to spend it on their bonuses… such malfeasance among our corporate brethren, can only happen on a Republican’s watch… “do what you want… we Republicans won’t interfere.” The Democrats would have been all over that before a crises had occurred…
“Bush is the person who sent your manufacturing jobs overseas.” Really? Did he put them in boxes or…? Labor and regulatory costs sent them overseas. Blame our high standard of living.
No, our jobs went overseas because it was cheaper under the tax codes made up by Republicans to make something in another country and bring it back over… Under a better tax package this would not have occurred, we would not have had as deep of a deficit, and we would have had a much healthier economy. As pointed out in the Kavipsian theory of economics, the difference of only 5% in our top rate, is all we needed to keep our economy steaming forward as it did during the Clinton years.. Pure and Simple. It is the Republican financial philosophy that caused us to experience what earlier this week became official: 0 % real job growth over the entire Republican presidency… That is just plain sick.
“Bush is the person who tried to remove your social security.” If remove = privatize then yeah he made a half-assed attempt and then quit.
Facts are in: Had Social Security been privatized.. as of around somewhere in November 08… It would not have existed. I call that getting rid of Social Security.
“Bush is the person who tried to get rid of Medicare.” By increasing funding?
Medicare has always been on the Republican chopping block. Bush was nothing new at putting lip service into eradicating it… The increased funding you mention, was passed on to future generations… That shows real responsibility… “Here, spend as much as you can on your health… Don’t worry! Your children and grandchildren will foot the bill…”
“Bush is the person who came close to nuking Iran.” Define close.
As for defining usage of nuclear weapons upon Iraq, that is what all were saying… In fact, one ranking officer said he would refuse the order if given to bomb Iran… Everyone who wasn’t a neocon, received a sigh of relief…
“Bush is the person whose policy made the US hated around the world.” Really? How’s Barry’s Charm Offensive going? Poland hates us, he snubbed the King of Norway and the UK, our closest ally isn’t returning our calls. Bang up job there Barry. Oh, and Muslim terrorists are still trying to blow up our airplanes.
As for Barack, I haven’t seen the evidence you mention… I do know, however, that the entire globe breathed a sigh of relief to see the former president step down…
“Bush is the person who destroyed the economy…” Please keep it straight. Is he a dunce or an evil genius. He can’t be both. (I’ll give you a hint. Liberals typically make Bush the dunce and Cheney the Evil Genius.) YMMV.
So say what you will about Barack… He is no Bush and for that, every American can be thankful…..
Since taking office, he has saved this nation several times… Bush in eight years… with help from all Republicans, mind you… destroyed it… At the rate were are currently on, (knock on wood) we should be in good shape to remove the rest of Republicans from office by this November…
With lies about Barack circulating about, yes, we do have some work to do, but then again, everything wonderful that ever happened to this nation, has always had some work behind it….
President……………..14……….24……..23……..19……37…….53………..92………..
Senatorial…………….99………132…….64……..19……37…….53………..91………..
Congressional……102………133…….69……..16……38…….53………..89………..
Governor……………103………129……..67……..17……38…….53………..88………..
Lt. Governor…………94………129…….64……..16……38…….53………..86………..
Insurance Com…..102……..129…….64……..17……36…….49………..86………..
State Senate 14………………………………………………………………………….86………..
Contested Race……..94…….151…….61……..17……37…….54……….85………..
KC Clerk of Peace….95……..125……59……..18…….36…….52……….87………..
Register of Wills…….73……..100……45……..18…….37…….54……….87………..
1st Levy Court………46/- …..76/-….27/-……………………………………………….
Comptroller…………..16……..31………16………18…….36…….54……….84………..
So where’s the proof?
Today the Superior Court certified all returns in Delaware… Of course that includes the contested Paradee/Thornburg race in the twenty-ninth district…
As we saw in 2000 at some point finality has to set in… A decision has to be made so things can move on…. The decision has to be made on the facts that are present at that time, and a moral decision has to be made whether those facts presented have credibility…
The Superior Court, led by James T Vaughn, today provided that finality… Thornburg is in.
But the issue of having Paradee “Gored” by a Diebold machine, does not need to disappear into history. Lessons can be learned to insure that it does not happen in the future…
Remember the Diebold scare of Ohio and again in Clinton’s surprise in New Hampshire?… In Delaware all machines scanning our absentee vote are Diebold… and as we see, are easily exploitable…. The voter fills out an absentee ballot on a punch card, circling little dots as one does on the SAT… Those are then fed into a scanner which spits out the total….
Now with the infusion of a large number of anticipated persons who would vote early, additional ballots were ordered from the vendor… It is those ballots which caused the error… Out of the entire state, only those of three districts were affected… the 28th, 29th, and 33rd. The tiny lines alongside of those extra ballots… a bar-code… had lines in the wrong places… thereby programming the scanner to search for votes in the wrong places on those ballots… The ballots looked perfectly normal to the voter… They looked perfectly normal to human election officials…But to the Diebold scanner programmed to read them in just a certain way….. the votes on the ballot did not match the selections of where they were to be recorded…
Republican State Chairman Tom Ross got it wrong on WDEL Votes from Obama were not given to Paradee..
The scanner looked for votes exactly where it was programmed to investigate, and recorded those totals that it saw, as the total of votes cast…
Delaware State law mandated a recount because of the closeness of the race… As the recount progressed, the combined total of new votes for just that race, was twenty five additional votes… As human beings logged the correct totals, the adjustment in the vote that we are now given…. was the result…. (which incidentally is 12 higher than any other absentee total of any other race).
Who are these human beings?.. Get this… an assortment of bankers and lawyers…. bankers because they can add totals together, and lawyers because they can decipher what a voter meant… This anachronism from our colonial past, is still in effect today… Therefore all we have is the faith that an assortment of bankers and lawyers told the truth and were not inclined to put one or the other candidates into that position… and we all know how far we can trust bankers and lawyers… both pillars of morality of our social fabric….
The original idea that a group who was independent of the Department of Elections, would do the recount was to insure the integrity of the Election process… In other words Election volunteers could not skew a race’s results and then cover up their own error during the recount.. Probably a good thing… And having banker and lawyers would be not issue, if the results were easily checked and verified by independent trustworthy sources…the colonial town pastor for example….(lol)
Who were the bankers in question? My sources don’t know, but I certainly hope that it was no one from Wilmington Trust (Thornburg $200), Bank of America (Thornburg$150), or DELBANKPAC (Thornburg $250), or lawyers representing clients Chesapeake Utilities(Thornburg $300), Civic Affairs Construction Council (Thornburg $450), Blue Water development(Thornburg $200), Delaware Hotel Association (Thornburg $300), Sunoco (Thornburg $300), Verizon (Thornburg $300), Comcast (Thornburg $300), First State Manufactured Housing (Thornburg $200), or Astra Zenica (Thornburg $200): certainly we can hope that none of these interests were on that select group that secretly recounted the ballots…”Pick a number, just so Thornburg wins….(laughter around the room…)..”
So there are apparently fuzzy issues with our voting process, and whether or not Paradee had his election stolen away from him by actual votes, or by sloppy accounting by some drunk lawyer or banker….. we may never know…
The votes are kept on file for 22 months and if not needed for any pending a lawsuit… are then destroyed forever… Sot there is still time, but it will take a court order to investigate….
Even then it will be too late for “Trey” Paradee….
For as of today, all the results have been certified….
ADDENDUM: The Department of Elections was still unaware that the Comptroller’s race of the t29th District had very few absentee votes registered similar to the Presidential race…( see the several posts below this one)….However that race was so lopsided, those missing votes would have no impact.
Perhaps next month you might be able to read this story in the News Journal. lol
kavips 
